CC Sabathia #52
Posted on 07/10/2008 7:22:26 AM PDT by sbMKE
Why do you live in Milwaukee? Posted: July 7, 2008
Whatever the reason, clinging to hometown roots, taking up a new job, or shedding a house in the suburb for a condo in the city, Milwaukee continues to sustain its population numbers early in the 21st century. What's your reason for living here?
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For the beer and cheese?...........
LOL!
Low expectations = satisfaction.
They’re hoping for change.
I’ve always wondered about Milwaukee...you just don’t hear many stories coming out of Milwaukee. It has to be the one of the largest, most un-noteworthy cities in the U.S. (I’m not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing.)
Is Allen-Bradley/Rockwell still there?
I don't know if it was in a movie or not. I was very young and didn't know what beer or Milwaukee was back then.
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CC Sabathia #52
“CC Sabathia #52”
Just a rental. He’ll be a Dodger next year.
I was in Milwaukee for a couple of days a few years back. From the moment I arrived I couldn’t wait to leave. I just had a bad vibe the entire time I was there, and couldn’t walk 10 feet in downtown without some bum asking me to “donate” money to some (no doubt) made up cause. I vowed that I would never willingly go back there, but I kind of do want to go back to see if it really was as creepy as I remember it, and to go to Miller Park.
The “Polish Moon” still shines in the valley.
I was in Milwaukee about 15 years ago, to attend a Greek Orthodox wedding and go to a baseball game at County Stadium. I enjoyed the old ethnic (mainly Eastern European and Italian) neighborhoods, each of which seemed to have its own local “watering hole.” I know County Stadium is gone. What’s happened to the old neighborhoods?
I like Milwaukee because I can slash tires all day long and not have to worry about retribution. It's even more fun to do it to those that dont agree with me politically.
Kind of like New Orleans.
Go peruse the Journal-Sentinal just a couple tiimes a week, it’ll make sure any plans you ever had of hanging out there fall by the wayside. (Grew up there, BTW)
Our friends on the East Coast always comment that the only time you hear about Milwaukee in the news it happens to be a serial killer or other freak incident.
Other than the nuts, the city is still very quiet and working class. A nice place to visit, good folks and unique attractions, but a rough place to live due to the alternately oppressive and absent city government and the redundant parallel county government.
Top 10 Reasons to Live in Milwaukee, WI:
1. get to burn expensive blended fuel in order to
2. pass Gestapo administered emissions test to license a vehicle
3. pay outrageous property taxes necessary to
4. fund innumerable liberal and ultra-liberal boondoggles
5. freeze your soft parts off in winter when your
6. car won’t start due to crummy blended fuel
7. risk robbery, injury, or death when you have to walk
8. taxes will be used to prosecute you if you defend yourself with a firearm
9. taxes will be used to defend the potential Nobel laureate who attacked you
10. even odds on whether WI bureaucrats or mosquitoes will suck you dry first
Hahahaha, yes, chickadee knows our town well. We used to go out to DiMarini’s Polish Pizza pit, gorge ourselves on pizza and cheap beer and then pray to the Polish Moon. And no we were not sober at the time.
Back in the 1950’s the Milwaukee Braves had a pitcher named “Mel Famee” (pronounced Fame-e). Mel liked to drink beer while he was on the bench to keep himself loose. One warm day when the Braves were playing the Dodgers in old County Stadium Mel had a few too many and started walking batters towards the end of game. Mel walked in the go-ahead run for the Dodgers and the Dodgers ended up winning the game. After the game a couple of Dodger players were walking past the Braves dug-out and saw Mel’s beer sitting on the bench. One Dodger said to the other one, “ Look - there’s the beer that made Mel Famee walk-us”. I apologize for this joke. After living in Milwaukee County for the past 21 years I have completely lost my fear of hell. KWCohen
I remember this joke well. Also remember sweltering in the bleachers at County Stadium. Got Warren Spahn and Eddie Matthews’ autographs one day.
I put in about 35 years before finally leaving WI, six in Milwaukee proper, the bulk in southern ‘burbs. Hell would be a walk in the park, comparatively speaking.
10) even odds on whether WI bureaucrats or mosquitoes will suck you dry first
New slogan for the city of festivals. Awesome.
Actually this might be unfair to the mosquitoes. There are nearly as many bureaucrats, and their proboscii make much bigger holes.
The only “Mel” the Braves ever had in Milwaukee was Mel Roach.
Milwaukee's problem is that the people who made it a great city don't live there anymore.
I really like Milwaukee.
Milwaukee has a bunch of Americans living in it.
Most locals appreciate “bowling night”.
They seem to have a huge middle class. All with well kept lawns and American flags displayed.
You are “Killing me Softly”. Your spot-on list brings a tear to the eye. sniffle
This used to be such a great place to live. Clean, well kept, great schools. All just distant memories now.
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